"Walcott." James said as he walked towards her as she walked in to the common room with Jenny, Tessa, and Lily.
"Yes?" She said and he grabbed her arm lightly.
"We need to talk." He said and led her out of the common room and out of the tower.
"We have a big problem." He said and started to pace.
"Are you referring to Lily going to the dance with Diggory?" She asked and he nodded.
"So I could hex him before the dance and then offer to take her to the dance instead."
"That is an awful idea, you know she would know it was you and then she would hate you. I mean you guys haven't quarreled in some time have you?"
"Not really, I mean only a little."
"See, progress now would you want to mess that up by hexing Amos? Not that I have any sympathy towards him? I don't like him much, I think he smiled at me the other day, it was creepy. He did this thing-."
"Can we focus on my big problem?" He asked and she pursed her lips for a moment.
"You could like poison him or something, I don't mean kill him either but just make him sick the night of the dance. This is really wrong you know that right?" She asked and he looked at her confused.
"I don't see anything wrong with it." He said innocently.
"Well here I am plotting against one of my better friends with her 'nemesis' to get said nemesis to go to the dance with her."
"I think nemesis is a bit strong don't you? She smiled at me the other day in class. She didn't do that scowl that she usually does when she sees me."
"Once again, progress." She said and leaned against the wall.
"I think the poisoning sounds pretty good." He said and leaned against the wall next to her.
"Do you know anything good?"
"I can't believe I am doing this." She said with a groan. "If you ingest large levels of hellebore it can make you sick for a few days. But I don't know how you are going to get him to eat hellebore."
"We could put it in his food."
"Yeah how are you going to do that? Just walk over and get him to look the other way while you switch his salad?"
"You underestimate me as a marauder." He said with a smirk. "Thanks." He said and pat her on the back and headed down the hall and she sighed and walked back in to the tower.
"What did Potter want?" Lily asked as Rebecca sat down next to her on the couch.
"Something about Quidditch." Rebecca said with a wave of her hand.
"Hey Becca." Andrew said and Rebecca cracked open an eye and looked up at him. She was using her free block to sit outside for some time alone to relax.
"Hey Andy." Rebecca said and he sat down next to her on the grass.
"I got a picture of the sonogram from my parents." He said as he handed her a picture and she sat up and took the picture from him and blinked a few times before focusing on the picture.
"Hey it kind of looks like you Andy, look there." She said as she pointed to the sonogram.
"I think that's the butt." He said and she smiled.
"Same difference." She said and he rolled his eyes and took the picture back.
"In just 5 more months I will have a baby brother." He said with a sigh and laid back on the grass.
"You're not with Claire, surprise there." She said dryly.
"She is with her friends trying to figure out make up and hairstyles for the dance. You're going right?" He asked and she nodded.
"You're going with Remus right?" He asked and she nodded.
"You'll save me a few dances right?" He asked and she looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Come on you have to save me a dance."
"I suppose I could." She said with a smile and he sat up.
"What are you wearing?"
"Uh that black dress I got last year for the end of the year dance."
"I like that dress." He said and wiggled his eyebrows.
"Yes you expressed that very much last time. Don't you have something better to be doing then bugging me? I was trying to relax." She said as she laid back and he chuckled.
"No not really, do you have practice today?"
"Yeah last day of conditioning, why the hell didn't you try out? You are a pretty good beater and I was looking forward to going up against you this year."
"I want to focus on my studies this year."
"Come on you balanced quidditch, school, president of the Transfiguration club and having me as a friend last year, why cant you do it this year?" She asked and he shrugged.
"Lemme guess, you wanna spend more time with Claire?"
"Is that a crime? Becca, she really isn't that bad, I think she is just a little jealous or something, you know that we're so close and all. She will get over it."
"I am sure she will." Rebecca said and sat up.
"Well I am going to go to the library and work on a little bit of Defense and History homework, do you want to come?"
"Naw I think I am going to go for a walk or something, I'll see you later yeah?" He asked and she nodded and got up and gathered her things.
"See ya." She said and walked back to the castle.
"Remus are you sick again?" Rebecca asked as he sat down across from her in the library.
"Yeah, I'm fine though." He said quietly as he got out his things. "I get sick a lot, my immune system isn't that great, it never has been."
"That sucks, I hate being sick, will you be alright for the dance?"
"I am sure I will be fine, don't worry." He said with a small smile.
"Would you feel up to going to Hogsmead on Saturday? Lily and the girls are going for some last minute stuff and I don't actually need anything and I haven't actually seen the whole village so wanna go?" She asked as she leaned back in her seat.
"To be honest I don't think I am feeling much up to it, sorry." He said sadly and she pursed her lips and nodded.
"That's alright I'll check it out myself."
"Its not that I don't want to-."
"Remus don't sweat it, its fine." She said as she gave him an assuring smile. "I'll see if Andy will go with me." She said and got back to her work.
"Why did you ask me to come with you?" He asked and she looked up.
"What do you mean?"
"To the dance, I mean I know plenty of other guys asked you."
"Is there some reason I shouldn't have?" She asked amused and he bit his lip.
"Do you not want to go?" She asked slowly and he looked at her surprised for a moment.
"No I do, I am just wondering why you asked me."
"Well here is the thing." She said leaning in and he leaned in slightly. She glanced around and licked her lips and pursed them as she paused. "So the other day I was just walking along and these aliens came by and said they would take over the world if I didn't ask you to come with me to the dance so, I really didn't have any other choice." She said and he looked at her blandly and she smiled.
"I wanted to go with you, you're my friend, isn't that what friends do? Go to dances with each other? I find that much more enjoyable because it relieves the pressure of trying to impress you." She said with a small chuckle and sat back in her seat. "You do still want to come right?"
"Yeah." He said and leaned back and she chuckled to herself and went back to her work.
"You know of course he would be coming with Claire to Hogsmead, ever since he met that bitch he is always with her, I saw this coming, I swear I did." Rebecca muttered to herself as she walked down the street munching on some pastries she had bought and she glanced in to the quidditch shop at the newest broom on sale.
"And before you know it he is going to forget all about me and then what am I supposed to do?" She said and heard a chuckle from behind her and she turned around and saw Sirius and she frowned at him.
"Go away." She muttered and turned back around.
"Do you normally talk to yourself like that?"
"Sometimes." She said and he stood next to her.
"You know you might want to get your head checked out, I think there is something wrong with it, well I know that there is but you know, for the record." He said with a shrug.
"Oh ha ha, aren't you funny." She said dryly.
"Did everyone ditch you?" He asked and as he turned around and faced her as he leaned against the window and faced her.
"No, I chose to come here by myself. Did everyone ditch you?"
"No, I am not much in to picking out dresses so I am waiting for Laura to come out. You should see the legs on that bird, wow." He said with a smirk.
"You are disgusting." She said as she started to walk away.
"Why did you come by yourself? Girls never go alone unless they are loners."
"I can go places by myself, I don't need friends or an escort thank you very much, I am independent." She said as she continued to walk.
"Is that what you call it? When no one wants to come to Hogsmead with you?"
"Shut up. I could have had anyone come with me."
"Then why didn't you?"
"Because I wanted to come by myself, you know have some time to myself to think, you are making it very hard to do so by the way."
"Always glad to help make your life a little less enjoyable."
"You are annoying, go away." She said and sped up her walking.
"So where are you going?"
"I don't know, that is none of your business anyways, so go away."
"Are you going to make me?"
"Well I might have to consider that since you wont stop following me that you are somewhat interested in me which is disgusting in which I might have to hex you."
"Trust me the only interest I have in you is making your life a living hell."
"Aww how sweet of you." She said sarcastically and stopped and turned to him.
"Can you leave me alone and go annoy someone else? I am sure that group of girls would love to have you annoy them." She said as she pointed to a small group of girls huddled together looking at Rebecca and Sirius. "Oh and now since you arent leaving me alone they are going to think something is going on with us, oh I can hear the rumors already, you are such a pain." She grumbled and continued down the road.
"Looks like my work here is complete, have fun by yourself, loner." He said and walked away and she glanced back at him and rolled her eyes to herself. There couldn't be anything more annoying than Sirius Black.
But there was one thing that came close.
A group of Slytherins she didn't particularly like. Namely Evan Rosier, Bellatrix Black and Rabastan Lestrange. She was fairly sure that Slytherins were at least smart enough to know not to attack her at Hogsmead. She glanced back, she was on the outer edge of the village, and there were only a few shops and very few students around. She got a chill up her spine as she had flashes of what had happened only weeks ago, the snapping of her arm as Bellatrix broke it and laughed as she cried out in pain and how could she forget the Cruciatus curse, the feeling of her body being split in half and lit on fire. She kept her head down hoping that she wouldn't be noticed and flinched inside when she heard Bellatrix's voice.
"Well what do we have here?" She said as they made their way over and Rebecca felt her heart race.
"Come back for some more?" Evan said with a smirk and Rebecca glanced around and spotted a group of students walking out of a store across the road and she made eye contact with them and they glanced at each other and quickly took off down the street and she rolled her eyes to herself and took a deep breath as she looked at the three Slytherins crowding around her. Rabastan hit the bag out of Rebecca's hands and she looked at the cookies on the ground and took a deep breath as she looked at Rabastan. She took a step towards him and he got out his wand and stuck it in her face.
"What are you going to do about it?" He asked with a smirk and she glanced at Evan and Bellatrix and went back to Rabastan.
"Get that fucking wand out of my face." She sneered and he chuckled.
"Are you going to make me?" He asked and poked her with it. "Would you like a repeat of what happened last time?" He asked as he got in to her face and she let out a sigh and looked at the floor and he chuckled and put his wand down.
"Looks like you aren't so tough after all huh?" He asked and she looked back at him as he looked at Bellatrix and Evan with a smirk and as he turned around she brought her fist back and slugged him as hard as she could in his face and he grabbed his face and she flicked her wand at the trashcan not too far away and it flew at Bellatrix and Evan and threw them off their feet and she jumped on Rabastan and started to hit as much of him as she could reach. She felt a hand grab her by her hair and pull her off Rabastan and a hand collided with her face and she grabbed her face as Bellatrix kicked her in the side and Rebecca grabbed Bellatrix and turned her around and threw her in to the side of the building and punched her hard in the back and sides until she turned herself around and punched Rebecca in the face and Rebecca threw back one and grabbed her by the hair and threw her in to the ground and got on top of her, holding her by the hair and hitting her head in to the ground.
"Don't you ever fucking come near me again or I will fucking kill you." Rebecca screamed and someone pulled her off and pushed her in to the wall and she looked at Evan who had a cut on his forehead and he looked at Bellatrix lying on the floor groaning.
"What should we do with her?" Evan asked and Rebecca took the moment to knee him and kick his wand out of his hand and she started to take off but Bellatrix grabbed her by the ankle and tripped her.
"Not getting away so fast you bitch." Bellatrix said and Rebbeca turned on her back and kicked Bellatrix in the face and she slumped over cold and Rebecca hurried down the street, kids whispering to each other as she walked down the street and she put her head down as she felt her nose and found it was bleeding. She used her sleeve and wiped it away the best she could but it kept bleeding.
"Merlin Walcott, what the hell happened?" Sirius said as he caught up to her.
"Leave me alone." She spat and hurried down the road back to the castle, hearing whispers all around her.
She ran up to her room out of breath and locked herself in the bathroom and leaned against the counter holding her side and she leaned over the sink as her nose continued to bleed in to the sink and she turned on the faucet and let the blood drain. She grabbed a towel off the counter and held it up to her nose and leaned her head back and sat back on the counter and groaned to herself. She could feel her side was bruised and she had a feeling this was probably going to send her home. She fumbled for her wand as she pulled the towel away to examine her nose and saw it was crooked.
"Stupid bitch broke my nose." She muttered to herself as she pointed her wand at her face praying she could do this right.
"Episkey." She said as clear as she could and felt a crack in her nose and bent over as she held her face letting out a colorful string of curses.
"What the hell?" Someone said and Rebecca looked up as Melanie poked her head in and looked disgusted at the blood on the floor.
"What the hell happened?"
"I got punched in the face, what else does it look like?" Rebecca snapped and grabbed the towel and stuck it to her face as she sat down on the ground and held her head back.
"Why did you get punched in the face?"
"Because Slytherins are fucking assholes that's why and taking on three at a time is very hard to do without getting something to show for it." Rebecca said and closed her eyes.
"Well would you mind cleaning up the blood, that's really gross." Melanie said and turned around and walked back in to the room and Rebecca rolled her eyes to herself.
"Bitch." She muttered under her breath.
After the bleeding stopped Rebecca stood up and observed herself again. She had heavy bruising around her right eye where Bellatrix had hit her the first time which was slightly swollen and the bruising around her nose from the broken nose. She lifted up the side of her shirt and saw a slight bruising on her side.
"Becky what happened?" Lily said from the doorway as she looked around the blood stained room in slight horror.
"Well I am getting sent home this time for sure." Rebecca muttered and started to clean her face.
"You have blood all over your shirt too."
"I didn't noticed, thank you for clearing that up." Rebecca snapped and paused and looked at Lily.
"Sorry, I am just a little ticked off right now." Rebecca said with a sigh and Lily nodded and backed out of the room. Rebecca cleaned up the blood around the bathroom and walked out and changed in to some fresh clothes.
"Are you alright?" Lily asked from her bed.
"Yeah I'm fine, just a little pissed off, I need to go get this bruising taken care of, I'll be back later, maybe." She said with a sigh and walked out and headed towards the dreadful Hospital wing.
Just as she expected, Madam Pomfrey was NOT pleased.
"Miss Walcott, I thought I said no more fighting." She said as she brought the paste over.
"I didn't start this, those stupid Slytherins did, I was minding my own damn- ow, careful." Rebecca said as Madam Pomfrey applied it to her face.
"Oh stop complaining." Madam Pomfrey said and Rebecca cracked open an eye at Madam Pomfrey.
"You did that on purpose."
"If you would hold still then this wouldn't hurt, stop moving."
"Well you're hurting me." Rebecca muttered.
"Take your shirt off so I can apply this to your side." She said and Rebecca carefully took off her shirt, trying to avoid getting the smelly cream on her shirt.
"I just don't understand how you get in to so many fights, you can walk away you know?"
"Well it is kind of hard to do so when you are cornered isn't it? They won't leave me alone, I'm like their favorite pastime or something and they are complete cowards and always gang up on me, trust me, if this was a one on one fight, I would not be here."
"Let me see your hands." She said and Rebecca held up her bruised hands and Madam Pomfrey frowned and applied the cream and closed the jar up.
"Lay down for a few minutes and I will be back to remove the cream." Madam Pomfrey said and Rebecca laid down and stared at the wall and gave a face of discomfort as she felt the prickling of the cream healing her bruises.
Later that night Rebecca heard a tap on the window and glanced over at it and flicked her wand and the window opened. A phoenix flew in and dropped a letter on Rebecca's bed and flew out and Rebecca stared after it and looked at Lily.
"Did you just see a phoenix or am I imagining things?" Rebecca asked as she picked up the letter.
"That's Dumbledore's phoenix." Lily said as she looked at the letter.
Uh oh =) thanks for reading, i hope you enjoyed it as much as i do writing them. Reviews make me happy =)